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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey (SNMHS).

Methods

The SNMHS is a face-to-face community epidemiological survey in a nationally representative household sample of citizens ages 15-65 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (n = 4,004). The World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was used to estimate lifetime prevalence of common DSM-IV mental disorders.

Results

Estimated lifetime prevalence of any DSM-IV/CIDI disorder is 34.2% and lifetime morbid risk is 38.0%. Anxiety disorders are by far the most prevalent (23.2%) followed by disruptive behavior (11.2%), mood (9.3%), eating (6.1%), and substance use (4.0%) disorders. Synthetic estimates of cohort effects suggest that prevalence of many disorders has increased in recent cohorts. Onsets typically occur in childhood for a number of anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders and in adolescence or early adulthood for most other disorders, although age-of-onset distributions for drug abuse is much later (median age of 31) than in CIDI surveys carried out in other high-income countries.

Conclusions

Lifetime mental disorders are highly prevalent in Saudi Arabia and typically have early ages-of-onset.

SUBMITTER: Altwaijri YA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7507419 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey.

Altwaijri Yasmin A YA Al-Subaie Abdullah S AS Al-Habeeb Abdulhameed A Bilal Lisa L Al-Desouki Majid M Aradati Maggie M King Andrew J AJ Sampson Nancy A NA Kessler Ronald C RC

International journal of methods in psychiatric research 20200815 3

<h4>Objectives</h4>To estimate lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey (SNMHS).<h4>Methods</h4>The SNMHS is a face-to-face community epidemiological survey in a nationally representative household sample of citizens ages 15-65 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (n = 4,004). The World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was used to estimate lifetime prevalence of common DSM-IV mental disorders.<h4>Results</h4>E ...[more]

PMID: 33245595

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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey.

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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey.

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